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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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Jesus is all we have he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
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We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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